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"This explanation that the time, effort and associated costs
needed to maintain the Hypervisor is again perfectly reasonable but
it is also being suggested that Sony were secretly annoyed at the
use of PS3’s by private company’s, research groups and
even individuals stock piling PS3s in racks to provide releatively
cheap processing power. Remember Sony sell the PS3 at a loss, and
profit is only generated for the group through sales of games.

"So it looks like the real cost savings for Sony in removing the
OtherOS option is not only in maintaining the Hypervisor but in
cutting out a number of sales which do nothing for Sony’s
bottom line, and this has to be a good thing all round. For those
that must accumulate racks of PS3’s the good news is that the
forthcoming FW3.0 will not be patching out the OtherOS feature from
the existing models."The reader comments are better than most articles on this
story--ed.